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From the vault This day in tech history, November 6
- 1980
Microsoft signs IBM's PC operating system contract
It had no operating system to sell. It licensed Seattle Computer Products' 86-DOS for $25,000, later bought all rights for $50,000 more, and PC DOS 1.0 shipped with the IBM PC in August 1981.
- 2007
Facebook launches Beacon
It went live with 44 partner sites, among them eBay, Fandango, Blockbuster and Zappos, posting what members did on those sites to their friends on Facebook.
Then and now
1981: A desktop computer's memory: 16 KB. Today: 512 GB. The base IBM PC had 16 kilobytes of RAM; a Mac Studio with M5 Ultra takes 512 GB of unified memory, and 512,000,000 KB divided by 16 KB is 32 million times as much.
